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House District 22 challenger Democrat Chris Radeff has been practicing law for 16 years, experience that she says makes her an ideal candidate for the state legislature.

As a family-law attorney, the Lakewood resident has guided hundreds of families through divorce, with most ending in amicable settlements, she said. And though she openly plugs her negotiation skills, she also cites years of running a successful small business as indicative of economic aptitude.

About 74 acres of the Dakota Ridge Hogback burned in a brush fire that broke out about 2 p.m. Monday near C-470 south of the Morrison Road exit. The cause of the blaze still was undetermined as of Tuesday morning.

Strong winds fanned the flames and pushed the rapidly growing fire south. Authorities had closed eastbound C-470 at I-70 by 5 p.m. Monday because of fire equipment being sent to the scene.

Residents’ opinions on bikes, pedestrians and land-use issues were discussed last week at the second of two sparsely attended public meetings on an update to South Jeffco’s community plan.

County planning officials collected public input through a small survey and gave brief overviews of the process by which the area’s individual plan will be integrated into the county’s new Comprehensive Master Plan. Also presented was a draft of the county’s bike/pedestrian plan, which is likely to take effect next year.

A registered sex offender was arrested early July 19 in South Jeffco after a local family reportedly discovered him trespassing in their garage.

Sean Deering, a Lakewood resident, is charged with six felony counts and is accused of entering the garage of a home in the 8700 block of West Fair Drive. The intruder allegedly crept under the garage door, which was open by about a foot. A woman who was asleep in the home woke shortly before 2 a.m. to find a man walking around in the unlit garage.

The jail that Jeffco outgrew in the mid-1980s still sits on the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden, but the gnarled artifact has a date with the wrecking ball soon — and the building apparently won’t be mourned or missed.

By most accounts, the structure, which was built in 1958 and housed the sheriff’s department for almost three decades, does not hold fond memories for the sheriff’s personnel who worked there — or, for that matter, for its former overnight guests.

Shoulder surgery to repair a dislocated rotator cuff. A broken nose. Plenty of doubters. And, yet, Lindsay Caprio wouldn’t have it any other way. The 16-year-old Chatfield junior is a rugby player, no doubt about it.

Jefferson County is updating its 10 community plans as part of its new Comprehensive Master Plan.

Meetings to gather citizen input for the South Jeffco plan will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 15, at the Ken Caryl Ranch House, 7676 S. Continental Divide Road, and on Wednesday, July 28, at the Columbine Library.